How to Install WordPress And Nginx on Ubuntu 12.04?

install wordpress ubuntu nginx

In this Tutorial we will cover, how to install WordPress. But before we start, make sure your server is ready and with root privileges.You also need to have nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL installed on the server. ( You can follow this tutorial to setup the server with these : LEMP Server Setup

Now lets begin installing and setting up WordPress on your server :

Step 1 Download the latest WordPress from the WordPress website itself :

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

After the Download is completed, Unzip the downloaded file :

tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz 

Step 2 Now you will be able to see the unzipped directory "wordpress".

Next we log in to MySQL using the root password to create the WordPress database.

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Create a user in this new database and create a password for this user.

CREATE USER wpusername@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
SET PASSWORD FOR wpusername@localhost= PASSWORD("password");
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

In order for the WordPress installer to start, we need to grant privileges to the new user.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
exit

Step 3 Update the wp-config.php, WordPress configuration file.

First we copy the wp-config-sample.php as wp-config.php

cp ~/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php ~/wordpress/wp-config.php

Next we update the database information in the wp-config.php. Add your database name, username and password instead of the ones present.

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'wpusername');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

Save the file and exit.

Step 4 We will move the unziped folder to the server's www directory.

Make the directory if not there already :

mkdir -p /var/www

Copy the unzipped folder to this directory

cp -r ~/wordpress/* /var/www

Given permissions to the directory. Replace the 'username' with your server username

sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R 
sudo usermod -a -G www-data username

Step 5 Setup Nginx

Create a new file for WordPress. you can copy the default configuration on nginx

sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

Open the New WordPress config file :

sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

The server block of the file should have the following settings :

server {
        listen   80;


        root /var/www;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        server_name 192.34.59.214;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
              root /usr/share/nginx/www;
        }

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        location ~ .php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                # With php5-fpm:
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
                 }
        

}

Save the file and exit

Step 7 Wrapping up

Create a symbolic link of the new wordpress nginx configuration file :

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wordpress

Restart nginx and php5-fpm

sudo nginx -t
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm restart

Now access the installation page by going through the site URL or the server IP.

www.example.com/wp-admin/install.php

Fill this form to complete the installation.

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